The second phase of Mission Indradhanush drive entered its third stage on Thursday.
The third stage of the second phase of Mission Indradhanush has been launched to vaccinate infants and women deprived of vaccination in the State. A target of vaccinating over 1.54 lakh children has been set for this stage.
Mission Director Faiz Ahmed Kidwai and other officers started field visits from Thursday for the success of the special drive.
The infants could be saved from eight life-threatening diseases by getting vaccinated on right time. All these vaccines are available at all the health institutes but still the special drive under the name of Mission Indradhanush has been launched so that not a single infant remain deprived of vaccination. The drive is going on in 25 districts of the State.
The second phase of the drive was started from October 7, 2015 and the achievements of this phase remain promising. The phase that was run from October to December 2015 had a total of 82, 676 sessions in which 4, 18, 956 infants from the age group of 0-2 years were vaccinated while complete vaccination of 1, 14, 172 children was done. Similarly, 1, 12, 102 women were vaccinated in this phase.
The third stage of the second phase of Mission Indradhanush launched to vaccinate infants and women deprived of vaccination in the State started Thursday in that a target of vaccinating over 1.54 lakh children has been set. This phase would come to an end on January 14.
To accomplish the target of complete vaccination officers field-visits are continued. Director of the National Health Mission Faiz Ahmed Kidwai took stock of the progress of mission in four districts of Jabalpur division.
He made on spot inspection of rural areas and also took information of the cold chain.